Exactly. The problem is You do the rewrite because I like Rust.
To be fair, this is a deal I would totally take, at my normal consulting rates. I'll be slower than Rust superfans, but I'm probably cheaper too.
You folks might like the work being done at turso :D
https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...
Rewriting things in Rust is a reasonable thing to do. I think the hate is for people who criticize existing software for being written in C on the grounds that hypothetically someone could rewrite them in Rust.
"I rewrote SQLite in Rust" would be praiseworthy (assuming it's true). "Why don't you rewrite SQLite in Rust?" is trolling.